Why are cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases the "number one killer" of health?

According to statistics, about 80 million people worldwide die of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases every year, accounting for 38.8% of the total deaths. In other words, for every 3 people who die, 1 person dies of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The number of people who die of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in China reaches 2.6 million every year, with an average of 7 123 people dying of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases every day. One person dies of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases every 12 seconds, and one person is paralyzed by cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases every 22 seconds. With the aging of population in China, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have become increasingly prominent, with the characteristics of "high incidence, high disability rate, high mortality rate, high recurrence rate and many complications". Cardiovascular disease has become the main killer of disability and death in the elderly.

Celebrities who suddenly died of heart disease ... Yeltsin (former Russian president), Michael Jackson (famous American pop star), jim cantalupo (chairman of McDonald's Global Company) and so on. . .

What is coronary heart disease?

Coronary heart disease is the abbreviation of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, which refers to heart disease caused by myocardial ischemia, hypoxia or necrosis due to atherosclerotic plaque (or thrombus) blocking the blood vessels (coronary arteries) supplying heart nutrition.

What is myocardial infarction?

Myocardial infarction is the death of myocardial cells caused by long-term ischemia. Only by ensuring the health of blood vessels (such as coronary arteries) that supply blood to the heart can we protect the health of the heart.

What are the risk factors of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases?

Among them, the prevention and treatment of hypertension is the most important thing to reduce the risk of occurrence and death of coronary heart disease and stroke.

Hypertension leads to myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction, link 1. Promote the formation of atherosclerotic plaque. Promote plaque rupture and thrombosis. Hypertension promotes the continuous deposition of lipid substances on the arterial wall, forming lipid plaques similar to millet atherosclerosis, reducing arterial elasticity and narrowing the lumen-atherosclerosis.

Long-term hypertension makes the cerebral vessels fragile.

So what antihypertensive strategies can we take to reduce the risk of occurrence and death of coronary heart disease and stroke? Among them, Mr. Ma, Director of Cardiology Department of General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army (referred to as 30 1 Hospital), gave a free lecture at the invitation of Health Platform, mainly explaining the causes of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the inducing factors of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and how to prevent and improve them.

If you think it is useful to you, you can go to the Xinkang Lecture Hall on Xinkanghui and listen to the playback of Teacher Ma's lecture.